Rampage (2018)

[Avatree]

8 hours ago, EarlyDeadlinePredictions said:

The Rock has no memorable one-liners in this.

How about the Moana reference?

[John Rambo]

As much as i loved Jumanji i hated this one! (Better than Baywatch though....)

4/10

[WrathOfHan]

The first two acts suck, but the third act is pretty fun. Average movie overall. 6/10 | C+

[Joel M]

This was a big letdown because the premise was so cool and the movie almost never lives up to it. It's not terrible but most of the time is boring. The humans spew exposition no one cares about and their jokes are really really bad and even the big monster fight in Chicago is so drawn out that it gets boring. Pretty much all the half hour of destruction prior to George and Rock teaming up to fight the crocodile was so blah, I was almost checked out by the time it got interesting again. 

 

There are some things that give a glimpse of how fun this movie could have been like the George/Rock team-up or that first Wolf chase or how unbelievably stupid the villains and their plans were but it all gets boged down by the rest of the film.

[Webslinger]

Despite strong computer-animated effects and the presence of the ever-charismatic Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Rampage falls flat as yet another video game adaptation that doesn’t quite cut it on film. The premise – that Johnson’s anti-poaching activist has a meaningful relationship with an ape that gains massive size and strength through exposure to an enhancing pathogen – has potential, but that potential quickly dissolves in service of a generic narrative that follows story and action beats so routinely that savvy viewers will spend just as much time checking their watches to see where the film presently falls within the Syd Field paradigm as they do watching the characteristically impressive Weta CGI carnage. The film is far from aggressively bad; it’s just aggressively mediocre and never really rises above that level. The monsters’ destruction of Chicago is a fairly standard affair and lacks urgency; it just feels like a more serviceable, less interminable rendering of the third act of the third and fourth Transformers films. Even Johnson, who is usually sufficiently charismatic to carry a film, feels subdued. The rest of the cast – which has been effective in one form or another in other film – doesn’t really register either. It isn’t terrible, but it also lacks the heart and verve necessary to be memorable.

 

C

[MrFanaticGuy34]

Well...this was a lot of fun. A great example of an enjoyable popcorn-flick.

 

If a sequel is inevitable, then hopefully there’s room for improvement, quality-wise.

Edited February 14, 2019 by MrFanaticGuy34